Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Alvarez, Julia

How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay How Tia Lola came to stay Julia Alvarez - New York A Yearling Book 2001 - 147 pages 20 cm. - Tia Lola Stories Book 1 .

On title page "visit" is crossed out.

Tia Lola comes to visit -- Bienvenida, Tia Lola -- Top-secret -- Lucky love -- Spanish word war -- Three happy days in Nueva York -- Two happy months in Vermont -- Mami's birthday party -- Best place in the world -- La Napa -- A word about the Spanish (Una palabra sobre el espanol).

Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her. Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about. Tia Lola, his quirky, "carismatica, " and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she arrives from the Dominican Republic to help out his Mami.

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Great-aunts
Dominican Americans
Families--Vermont
Divorce
Aunts


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